A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison for Saint Columbia’s United Reformed Church, April 3rd 2022 John 12:1-8 ‘You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.’ (12:8) That’s Jesus’s answer to what I think is a reasonable question, one which comes from Judas Iscariot. Six days before […]
Sermon: Past, Present and Future
A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, 3rd April 2022 Isaiah 43:16-21; Philippians 3:4b-14 It won’t have escaped your notice that there’s some building work going on the middle of North Shields. Northumberland Square has new paving, and the garden is being returned to a […]
Sermon: A Ministry of Reconciliation
A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, March 27th 2022 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 At this morning’s service we listened to the Parable of the Prodigal Son, or alternatively, the Parable of the Welcoming Father. We reflected that the father in the parable behaves in […]
Sermon: Mothers and Fathers
A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, 27th March 2022 Luke 15:11-32 It’s the fourth Sunday in Lent, so it’s Mothering Sunday. In this church, Sunday by Sunday, we normally take our readings from the Revised Common Lectionary. That’s a collection of Bible readings […]
Sermon: The Temptations that Face us All
A sermon preached by the Reverend Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields Luke 4:1-13; Romans 10:8b-13 ‘Then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world,’ … [saying] ‘it has been given over to me, and I will give it to anyone […]